Teen maces fellow student at Ballou High School

WASHINGTON – A student at Ballou High School in Southeast D.C. maced a peer on Friday afternoon in an incident school officials believe was a result of a previous neighborhood dispute, WJLA-TV reports.

Extra security was assigned to Ballou after the incident. Officials with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department say a group of at least 10 students got into a fight at the 4th Street Southeast campus, during which one student pulled out a can of mace and began spraying.

D.C. Fire officials told WJLA that four people were treated for respiratory distress, while other students simply went home early.